NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #20/NN_1992_20.iso/spool/comp/sys/atari/st/13390

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From: [e-mail] (Joachim Vance)
Subject: Re: Mac OS vs. TOS (was Re: Falcon Graphics
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Date: 8 Sep 92 10:04:30 GMT
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[e-mail] writes:
>In today's New York Times, there is an ad from J&R Music World
>for a Mac Classic II for $1199. [...]
>That is $400 more than the indicated price of the Falcon...

  You are, of course, comparing the street price of the Mac with the
suggested list of the bare bones Falcon.
  I predict that a good street price of the 4meg 65 HD Falcon will be
less than $1199.  Or you could do it yourself for about that much.  Now
for about the same price and same storage space, which one is better?
  I'll pick the one with built-in DSP, amazing sound, and a *lot* more
colors than black and white.  Plus something that's not limited to a
16-bit bus.  Granted, to make it fair you have to toss in the cost of
a monitor for the Falcon (let's say ~$300).  But you can't get all the
built-in features of the Falcon for the Classic II for even double
that amount.
  The Classic II loses in hardware features against the Falcon hands
down.

  Software may be a different story, but I'm expecting to see some
pretty neat stuff coming out soon to take advantage of the Falcon's
features.

--
Joachim Vance
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